Famous Paintings

The world's top 10 most expensive famous paintings

Picasso's oil painting "Boy with a Pipe" was sold at a sky-high price of $104.16 million, which set a new world record for paintings sold at auction, making it the world's most expensive painting at present.

Vincent van Gogh's 1890 Portrait of Dr. Gachet was sold in 1990 for $82.5 million.

Dutch painter Rubens' painting "Beating of a Baby" changed hands in 2002, with the purchaser going so far as to pay 73.5 million euros.

The Ball at the Moulin Rouge, 1990, $78.1 million.

Self-Portrait without Beard, Van Gogh, Netherlands, 1998, $71.5 million.

The Massacre of the Innocents, an unseen painting by the 17th-century Baroque genius Rubens, sold for 49.5 million pounds at Sotheby's in London.

Woman with Arms Clasping Her Breasts, Picasso, 2000, $55.6 million.

The Iris was completed in May 1889. The iris is the same plant as the sunflower, which Van Gogh seems to have enjoyed painting.

In 1892, Tanguy (a friend of Van Gogh's) sold the painting for 300 francs to the critic Octave Mirbeau, one of Van Gogh's earliest admirers. The painting, like many other Van Gogh paintings, continued to be bought and sold after his death.

At auction in 1988, a whopping $53 million was asked for it.

Dreams, Spain, Picasso, 1997, $48.4 million.

Still Life Paul Cézanne 1999 $60.5 million.

The above is from the internet.

But last year there seems to have been a so-called gold painting - Klimt's Mrs. Adler Broch Bauer, which was acquired by cosmetics giant Ronald S. Lauder for $135 million, surpassing Boy with a Pipe. But it was later questioned as speculation. /2006-06-21/074S/05333889.html

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